Comments on: Chromodynamics analog watch overlaps colored discs.

By: DollyPittman

DollyPittman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:19:26 +0000

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By: logan

logan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:36:41 +0000

Glad to have an artist’s perspective here.

By: Dianekmt

Dianekmt — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:06:06 +0000

As an artist, I can very much appreciate your coloured dial. It looks very nice, and is unique.

Diane.

By: logan

logan — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:48:47 +0000

Thanks for your comment. Now I wish I had presented my black-and-white version. Because this design relies not only on the colors of the three filters, but also their overlaps, I think it would be very difficult to pick colors that would work. If http://colorfilter.wickline.org is accurate at displaying what this looks like with red-green colorblindness, then the difficulty level goes way up.

By: opop64

opop64 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:25:02 +0000

Red-green colorblindness makes it hard for me to appreciate this as much as I would wish…

By: Samukun

Samukun — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:32:46 +0000

Pink shmink, thats only my personal taste You can change the color order for other results – peace of cake. But a 50% red is only pink on white ground. The color mixes instantly with the one below it and there won’t be pink actually.

Oh thats a good point about reading without colors then. True, the colors should keep their function.

By: logan

logan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:36:17 +0000

Thank you, WatchMad!

By: logan

logan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:35:08 +0000

Thanks for your detailed comments, Sam! I worried a little about some people not liking the pink. This comes from the red being on top of the stack of disks. In my diagrams above, red is on top, blue in the middle, green on the bottom, with a white base plate, and all disks have 50% transparency. If you adjust the stacking order, you’ll get different colors, but I thought this order made the different color regions easiest to distinguish. However, you could certainly play with other colors and/or transparencies and see what you get. (Incidentally, I also made a design with no colors — just black and white of various shapes with different transparencies, but I thought that would be too difficult to read, especially under dim lighting.)

About the shapes, yes, you can definitely experiment. My preference would be to keep the radii the same, though, for the following reason: if the radii are different, then you can read the time by ignoring the colors, in which case the colors are just added decoration. I prefer that the colors have a functional purpose. So, I’d encourage experimentation with different shapes dividing the black and colored region of each disk but keeping the radii the same.

By: Samukun

Samukun — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:44:57 +0000

I totally support the idea, its a must-have-on-the-wrist. I would start doing research now if I were tokyoflash. Research for actual color behaviour. For me, the current display is too pink. Could be helped with some experimenting I think. The pink goes well with the white case, that has to be said As for the colored shapes, maybe the different discs should have different radii. Right now 9 exteme situations occur on the display border of which only 3 (the ones where two same colored shapes touch) are important. Finding the important points and distinguishing the colors could be simpler. Easy to say for me while I tend to make my displays kind of inconveneient But if I assume, TF made it like this, I would take the challenge and try to get used to it. So 5*/YES for the idea and good luck! A-na-log!!!

By: WatchMad

WatchMad — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:33:45 +0000

really elegant, those color looks are just awesome, i just want one :p

By: logan

logan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:54:22 +0000

Haha, Firdaus

Yes, the time telling is actually easy. I’m glad you agree.

By: logan

logan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:52:43 +0000

Thanks, Pete!

By: logan

logan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:52:28 +0000

Thank you for your comment. I didn’t use yellow for two reasons: 1) Because some indoor lights have a yellow tint, using a yellow filter will cause a greater change in the watch’s colors due to artificial lighting conditions, which isn’t desirable. 2) Green looks better, try it and judge for yourself.

For reason #1, all the filters should all be produced with spot colors of pure pigments, not with a standard CMYK process. We don’t want any yellow in the mixture.

By: Timo

Timo — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:17:51 +0000

Hi Logan,
change the green disk to yellow, because it’s not lights, just paints (substractive color mixing).

By: Rina

Rina — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:32:39 +0000

I like this color combination! Very beautiful! I want to buy a beautiful watch like this.